#!/bin/bash
# A simple notify script for now-playing songs on mpd. This script uses
# notify-send and mpc to get the current song information.
# Requirements (* = optional)
# - mpd
# - mpc
# - notify-send (libnotify)
# * ImageMagick (convert)
# Author : Wolfgang Mueller
# You can use, edit and redistribute this script in any way you like.
# (Just make sure not to hurt any kittens)
# Configuration-------------------------------------------------------
# The music directory that contains the music and cover files
MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Musica"
# The default cover to use (optional)
DEFAULT_ART=""
# The following track metadata delimiters can be changed.
# You can find all possible delimiters in the 'mpc' manpage.
# It's also possible to use pango markup like and
# How to format artist/album information
A_FORMAT="%artist%[ (%album%)] - %date%"
# How to format title information
T_FORMAT="%title%"
# Regex expression used for image search
IMG_REG="(front|cover|art|Folder|folder)\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$"
# Title of the notification
NOTIFY_TITLE="Now Playing"
# Path of temporary resized cover
TEMP_PATH="/tmp/mpdnotify_cover.png"
# Resize cover to (optional, recommended)
COVER_RESIZE="100x100"
# Thumbnail background (transparent by default)
COVER_BACKGROUND="none"
# Logfile
LOGFILE="$HOME/.mpdnotify.log"
#--------------------------------------------------------------------
# determine file
file="$(mpc current -f %file%)"
# check if anything is playing at all
[[ -z $file ]] && exit 1
# Get title info
title="$(mpc current -f "$A_FORMAT")"
# Get song info
song="$(mpc current -f "$T_FORMAT")"
# Art directory
art="$MUSIC_DIR/${file%/*}"
# find every file that matches IMG_REG set the first matching file to be the
# cover.
cover="$(find "$art/" -maxdepth 1 -type f | egrep -i -m1 "$IMG_REG")"
# when no cover is found, use DEFAULT_ART as cover
cover="${cover:=$DEFAULT_ART}"
# check if art is available
if [[ -n $cover ]]; then
if [[ -n $COVER_RESIZE ]]; then
convert "$cover" -thumbnail $COVER_RESIZE -gravity center \
-background "$COVER_BACKGROUND" -extent $COVER_RESIZE "$TEMP_PATH" >> "$LOGFILE" 2>&1
cover="$TEMP_PATH"
fi
notify-send -t 5000 --hint=int:transient:1 "$NOTIFY_TITLE" "$title\n$song" -i "$cover" >> "$LOGFILE" 2>&1
else
notify-send -t 5000 --hint=int:transient:1 "$NOTIFY_TITLE" "$title\n$song" >> "$LOGFILE" 2>&1
fi